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Data Sheet on Dendrolimus Sibiricus and Dendrolimus Superans EuropeanBlackwell Publishing, Ltd. and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization Organisation Européenne et Méditerranéenne pour la Protection des Plantes Data sheets on quarantine pests Fiches informatives sur les organismes de quarantaine Dendrolimus sibiricus and Dendrolimus superans Identity Hosts Taxonomic position: Insecta: Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae D. sibiricus and D. superans can damage more than 20 species Notes on taxonomy and nomenclature: Dendrolimus of Abies, Pinus, Larix, Picea and Tsuga. They can develop on sibiricus and Dendrolimus superans are two closely related practically all coniferous species in their natural area. The allopatric taxa, the former widespread in continental Russia preferred hosts of D. sibiricus are: Abies sibirica, Abies and the latter present in Sakhalin, the Kurile Islands and nephrolepis, Pinus sibirica, Pinus koraiensis, Larix gmelinii, northern Japan. According to the main international Larix sibirica, Picea ajanensis, Picea obovata. Those of opinion, these are two separate species. However, many D. superans are: Pinus pumila, Larix kamtschatica, Picea Russian scientists consider that there is a single species D. ajanensis and Abies sachalinensis (Rozhkov, 1963; Epova, superans with two subspecies: Dendrolimus superans sibiricus Pleshanov, 1995). There are no specific reports concerning Tschetverikov and Dendrolimus superans albolineatus Butler European species of conifers. (Rozhkov, 1963; Epova & Pleshanov, 1995). The two species are very similar and are treated together in this data Geographical distribution sheet. Dendrolimus sibiricus Dendrolimus sibiricus EPPO region: Russia (eastern part of European Russia and Name: Dendrolimus sibiricus Chetverikov practically all Asian Russia except the extreme north, Sakhalin Synonyms: Dendrolimus superans sibiricus Chetverikov, and Kurile Islands; Fig. 1) Dendrolimus laricis Chetverikov Asia: Russia (practically all Asian Russia except the extreme Common names: Siberian silk moth, Siberian moth, Siberian north, Sakhalin and Kurile Islands), Kazakhstan, China conifer silk moth, Siberian lasiocampid, larch caterpillar (in (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Neimenggu), Korea Democratic China) (English); сибирский шелкопряд (Russian) People’s Republic, Korea Republic, Mongolia (north) EPPO code: DENDSI EU: absent Phytosanitary categorization: EPPO A2 action list no. D. sibiricus is presumed to have originated in Siberia but has 308 apparently been spreading westwards at a rate that has been variously estimated as 12 km per year or 40–50 km per year. In 1955, Okunev (1955) considered that it had reached longitude 37° Dendrolimus superans or 38° in European Russia (including the White Sea coast), but Name: Dendrolimus superans Butler a later opinion (Rozhkov, 1963) places the most western point Synonyms: Dendrolimus superans albolineatus Butler, much further to the east, at longitude 52° (Fig. 1). The furthest Dendrolimus albolineatus Matsumura, Dendrolimus yezoensis west at which outbreaks of D. sibiricus have occurred were in the Matsumura, Odonestis superans Butler regions of Perm and Udmurtia (Koltunov et al., 1997; Gninenko, Common names: white-lined silk moth, Sakhalin silk moth, 1999), but in 2001, males of the species were captured in Japanese hemlock caterpillar (English), feuille morte du tsuga pheromone traps more than 1000 km to the west, close to Moscow. du Japon (French), Japanischer Douglasien-Spinner (German), белополосый шелкопряд (Russian), tuga-kareha (Japanese) Dendrolimus superans EPPO code: DENDSU Phytosanitary categorization: EPPO A2 action list EPPO region: Russia (Sakhalin, Kurile Islands). no. 330 Asia: Japan (Hokkaido and northern Honshu), Russia 390 © 2005 OEPP/EPPO, Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin 35, 390–395 Dendrolimus sibiricus and Dendrolimus superans 391 Fig. 1 Geographical distribution of Dendrolimus sibiricus (Rozhkov, 1963). (Sakhalin, Kurile Islands) (Matsumura, 1925; Rozhkov, 1963; the end of April, in the following year, the larvae return to the Epova, Pleshanov, 1995). crowns, eat complete needles, and sometimes the bark of young EU: absent shoots and cones. They moult after one month and again at the end of July or in August. In autumn, the larvae return to the soil and overwinter for a second time. In May and June of the Biology following year, the larvae feed very intensively. During this period, they eat about 95% of the food that they need for their Dendrolimus sibiricus development and it is then that the major damage occurs. In total, larvae moult 5–7 times and have, correspondingly, 6–8 The host/parasite relationship of D. sibiricus is characterized instars. In June, the larvae make cocoons and the development by cycles of slow build-up of population numbers over several of pupae within them takes about one month. The full life cycle years, reaching a peak (outbreak) followed by a population usually takes two years. In southern parts of the natural range, collapse. Outbreaks of D. sibiricus occur with a periodicity however, one generation can develop in a single year, whereas, of 10–11 years (Rozhkov, 1963; Epova & Pleshanov, 1995; in northern regions, the completion of a generation can Vorontsov, 1995), usually last 2–3 years and are often preceded sometimes take three years (Rozhkov, 1963; Galkin, 1993; by 2–3 years of water deficit. It has been noticed that the Vorontsov, 1995). cycle of these outbreaks in some parts of the geographical range of the pest coincides with the cycle of solar activity, with the maximum development of the outbreaks occurring Dendrolimus superans in years of increasing number of sunspots (Galkin, 1975, 1992). The biology of D. superans is very similar to that of D. sibiricus. The first flight of D. sibiricus in the middle latitudes of its Outbreaks have been recorded in Sakhalin since 1920, mainly natural range usually occurs in the middle of July. Immediately in larch-pine forests in the northern part of the island. In after mating, females lay eggs on the needles, mainly in the the south, the pest damages spruce-fir forests but only one lower part of the crowns. During outbreak years, eggs are laid major outbreak has been recorded. Outbreaks also occur in throughout the tree and on the surrounding ground. One egg spruce-fir forests on the Kurile islands (Epova & Pleshanov, mass may contain few or up to 200 eggs. Each female lays an 1995). average of 200–300 eggs, with a maximum of 800 (Rozhkov, Flights of D. superans begin in June/July and last till August. 1963; Vorontsov, 1995). Egg development usually takes 13– The pest prefers mature forests (more than 50 years old). The 15 days (with an occasional maximum of 20–22). First-instar life cycle may take one or two years (or even more) depending larvae eat the edges of needles and moult in 9–12 days. Second- on climate conditions; development takes much longer in the instar larvae cause even more damage to the needles and north of Sakhalin than in the south (Bushmelev & Yurchenko, develop for 3–4 weeks before moulting. Third-instar larvae 1989; Gninenko & Baranchikov, 2004), and presumably than descend to the soil in September and overwinter under moss. At in Japan. © 2005 OEPP/EPPO, Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin 35, 390–395 392 Data sheets on quarantine pests Fig. 3 Caterpillar of Dendrolimus sibiricus. Fig. 4 Caterpillar before pupation and pupa of Dendrolimus sibiricus. Fig. 2 Egg masses of Dendrolimus sibiricus. longitudinal stripe; each segment dorsally covered with silvery scales, reflecting a light shade of golden, so that in fresh specimens the dorsal hexagonal markings not distinct; stigma yellowish-white, on its sides with some reddish Detection and identification markings and white scales; dorsal marking of each abdominal segment hexagonal. Ventral surface with a series of Symptoms fuscous spots (D. sibiricus) or a yellowish-brown stripe Defoliation of Pinus, Larix, Abies or Picea spp. is usually very (D. superans) (Matsumura, 1925; Bushmelev & Yurchenko, spectacular. The presence of caterpillars is easily detected. The 1989). caterpillars and adults can easily be distinguished from related species, even from the European Dendrolimus pini, which is the Pupa most closely related species. Adult males can be captured using The pupa (Fig. 4) is brown, 33–39 mm long in females, 28– pheromone traps containing a specific pheromone (Pletniev 34 mm in males. et al., 1999). Adult The female wingspan is 60–80 mm in D. sibiricus (Fig. 5) and Morphology 77–102 mm in D. superans, and the male 40–60 or 60–79 mm, Eggs respectively. The female body length averages 39 mm, and the About 2.2 × 1.9 mm, elongate, light-green when laid, turning male 31 mm, in D. sibiricus. The following description applies creamy-white, then becoming darker and spotted (Fig. 2). to both species: colour from light yellowish-brown or light grey to dark brown or almost black; fore wings crossed by two Larva characteristic dark stripes; white spot situated at the centre of The caterpillar (Fig. 3) is 50–80 (D. sibiricus) or 60–82 the fore wing; antemedial line to the primaries straight from the (D. superans) mm long. The following description of the full- costa to the discoidal spot, then becoming oblique, reaches grown caterpillar applies to both species: mainly black or the hind margin at the inner side of the discoidal spot; vein 9 to dark-brown with numerous spots, with long hairs; the 2nd the primaries opening at the costa and not reaching apex. The and 3rd segments crossed by blue-black stripes; labrum in the postmedial line is much incurved near the
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